Combined sink and washtub.



4No. 682,482. Patenteusepf. lo, |901.` w. J. Mums.

COMBINED SINK AND WASHTUB.

(Application med um. 12, 11501.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES l EEicE.

PnENi COMBINED SlNK AND WASHTUB.

SPECFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,482, dated September10, 1901. Application filed March 12, 1901. Serial No. 50,848. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it mag/.concerns Beit known that LWALTER J. MINNs, acitiz'en of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York,borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Combined Sink and Washtub, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the invention is to provide a means whereby a sink may becombined with a washtub and each may be separately used to as muchadvantage as if they were entirely independent one of the other and toso combine a sink and washtub as to economize in space and at the sametime provide a perfectly sanitary fixture and lessen the amount of wasteand supply pipe usually required When a washtub and a sink areindependently fitted up.

Afurther purpose of the invention is to so make the connections thatthey may bereadily kept sweet and clean and so that the usualsink-strainer and its putty joint may be dispensed with.

Another purpose of the invention is to so mount the sink upon a tub thatno water can possibly splash up and run down at the top of the sink ortub and so that the overflowin the tub will be operative while the sinkis in use.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as Will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the combined sink and tub. Fig. 2 is avertical section taken practically on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3is a section through the bottom portion of the sink and the strainerused in connection therewith.

A represents a double washtub, which may be of any approved constructionand which is supported in any desired manner, and said tub is providedwith the usual partition 10, dividing it into two compartments. Onecompartment of the tub may be closed by a cover B, and this cover ismade to pitch more or less in direction of the partition 10 and is to beutilized as a draining-board. To that end the upper face of the coverhas a series of channels or grooves made therein. The cover for theother compartment of the washtub A is in the form of a sink, and theflanges of the sink rest upon the top of the partition 10 and the top ofthe front, rear, and end portions of the tub at said compartment. Theflange of the sink which rests upon the partition 10 is beneath thecover B, which is utilized as a draining-board when the said cover B isclosed.

The rear wall of the sink C is coucaved at the back, as shown at l2 inFig. 2J in order that the faucets 13 may be regularly introduced intothe compartment of the tub at the rear, as is shown in Fig. 2. At therear flange of the sink O an auxiliary and upwardly-extending flange 14is formed, and this flange extends within the front or breast portion ofa boxing 15, located above the sink. The sink is supplied with waterthrough the medium of the usual faucets 1G, andthe pipes connected withthese faucets extend down within the said boxing 15, as shown in Fig 2.By the use of the auxiliary flange la it is evident that it isimpossible for water to splash up and leak at the rear of the sink ortub, as when the sink is in position on the tub the auxiliary flange 14:closely engages with the inner face of the breast portion of the boxingor casing 15.

The sink C is hinged to the boxing or cas ing 15 in any approved manner.Usually lugs 17 are formed at the rear end portions of the sink at itsupper edge, and these lugs are attached pivotally to the boxing orcasing 15 at its bottom portion. Thus the sink may be lifted up to thevertical position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 and held in thatpostion by means of a latch 22, attached to the wall or other support ata point above the tubs, and when the sink is carried upward the cover Bwill be likewise carried to an upper position, thus exposing thecompartments of the tub and permitting the tub to be used asconveniently as the ordinary tub.

rlhe flange 17 of the strainer 17'b is countersunk in the bottom of thesink O, as shown in Fig. 3, and is bolted to the bottom. of the sink.Immediately beneath the strainer 17b a downwardly-extending collar 18 isformed.

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When the sink C is brought in position for for use, as shown in Figs. 1and 2, the collar 18 Will enter the Waste-pipe 19 of the sink, and atthe side of the Waste-pipe 19 an overiiow-pipe 20 is provided,connecting with the Waste-pipe at a point within the tub,and these twopipes 19 and 2O are connected in the usual way with the trap 2l. Thus itwill be observed that While the sink is in use any water that mightpossibly find its Way into the tub cannot overow the same, since it willfind an exit through the overflow-pipe 20.

With reference to the cleanliness of the device, by simply letting thewater run in the tubs until it overflows and then passing an ordinarybottle-brush down the waste and overflow pipes into the trap the saidpipes and trap can be kept sweet and more sanitary than is possible inthe construction of the ordinary sink.

I desire it to be understood that instead of the box or casing 15 theordinary sink-back may be used, the auxiliary flange 14 of the sinkextending upward at the rear of such to the wall or a like support andinto which the said flange extends, a waste and an overflow pipe locatedwithin the tub and having open upper ends, a strainer for the sink, anda sleeve around the strainer, extending from the bottom of the sink andadapted to enter the waste-pipe, for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination,with a Washtub, a sink back or casing above the saidtub,and a waste and an overflow pipe located Within the tub having openupper ends side by side, the overflow-pipe terminating short of the -topof the Waste-pipe and having its lower end opening into the waste-pipeof a sink pivotally attached to the sink back or easing, the sink beingadapted to constitute a cover for the tub, a iange extending upward fromthe rear upper edge of the sink at the rear of the sink backor casing,the rear face of the sink being concaved at its outer side, a strainerfor the sink, and a sleeve surrounding the strainer and extendingdownward from the sink,which sleeve is adapted to enter the\vastepipe,for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

WALTER J. MINN Si Witnesses:

ARTHUR E. MINNs, A. J. DooHER..

